Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$2,158,979

Total expenses

$1,665,949

Contributions and grants received

$2,096,414

Grants paid

$231,240

Program service revenue

$57,500

Investment income

$124

Other revenue

$4,941

Total assets, end of year

$734,145

Total liabilities, end of year

$31,654

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$702,491

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,039,061

Management and general expenses

$280,489

Fundraising expenses

$346,399

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,039,061

Program services were 62.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• OPEN CAMPUS LOCAL REPORTING NETWORK: WE COMBINE SUPPORT FROM NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AND LOCAL FUNDERS TO CREATE LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIPS THAT ADVANCE SOPHISTICATED COVERAGE OF THE HIGHER ED BEAT. THROUGH THE OPEN CAMPUS LOCAL REPORTER NETWORK, WE COLLABORATE EVERY WEEK WITH REPORTERS IN PARTNER NEWSROOMS, COACHING THEM ON COVERAGE, PROVIDING STORY GUIDANCE, DOING BIG-PICTURE EDITING, AND CONNECTING THEM WITH NATIONAL DATA, SOURCES, AND CONTEXT. THEY BENEFIT FROM CONNECTIONS WITH ONE ANOTHER AND FROM MONTHLY OPEN CAMPUS REPORTING WORKSHOPS. THEY ARE EMPLOYED BY THEIR LOCAL NEWSROOMS, AND STORIES ARE PUBLISHED BY THE LOCAL NEWSROOM AND OPEN CAMPUS. OPEN CAMPUS STAFF EDITORS WORK WITH THE PARTNER NEWSROOMS TO PRODUCE HIGH-QUALITY WORK. THEY ALSO SEND OUT NEWSLETTERS ABOUT THE WORK TO OPEN CAMPUS SUBSCRIBERS.

  Expenses $442,561 · Grants $231,240 · Revenue $20,000

• OPEN CAMPUS NATIONAL REPORTING TEAM: OPEN CAMPUS COVERS ALL FACETS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. TO THAT END, WE HAVE A NATIONAL REPORTER ON STAFF WHO WRITES ABOUT POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION INSIDE PRISONS AND HOW IT IS BEING TRANSFORMED BY NEW FUNDING AND NEW TECHNOLOGY. OUR SECOND NATIONAL REPORTER IS FOCUSED ON HOW HIGHER EDUCATION IS SERVING RURAL COMMUNITIES AND RURAL RESIDENTS. IN 2022, WE HAD A NATIONAL REPORTER FOCUSED ON COVERING ISSUES OF RACE AND EQUITY IN HIGHER ED. ALL REPORTERS PRODUCED EMAIL NEWSLETTERS ABOUT THEIR BEATS. OPEN CAMPUS STAFF EDITORS WORK WITH THE NATIONAL REPORTERS TO PRODUCE HIGH-QUALITY WORK, AND TO CO-PUBLISH THAT WORK WITH NATIONAL NEWS OUTLETS.

  Expenses $369,912 · Revenue $20,500

• WORK SHIFT:WORK SHIFT IS A PROJECT OF OPEN CAMPUS DEVOTED TO REPORTING ON THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN EDUCATION AND WORK. AS TRENDS IN CAREER TRAINING EVOLVE, WORK SHIFT, AND ITS COMPANION NEWSLETTER, THE JOB, INFORM HIGHER ED INSTITUTIONS, EMPLOYERS AND POLICYMAKERS ABOUT CHANGES IN THE INDUSTRY.

  Expenses $214,156 · Revenue $17,000

• JOURNALIST TRAINING: THE HBCU STUDENT JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPOPEN CAMPUS ACKNOWLEDGES THE UNDERREPRESENTATION OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (HBCUS) IN MAINSTREAM REPORTING AND THE NEED TO AMPLIFY BLACK VOICES IN JOURNALISM. TO ADDRESS THIS, OPEN CAMPUS, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HBCU DIGEST, HAS DEVELOPED THE HBCU STUDENT JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP. THIS INITIATIVE PROVIDES HBCU STUDENTS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO ACCURATE AND COMPREHENSIVE REPORTING ON HBCUS WHILE FOSTERING A DIVERSE PIPELINE OF JOURNALISM TALENT.

  Expenses $12,432

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• CRAIN COMMUNICATIONS INC

  $50,000

  PARTNER NEWSROOM SUPPORT

• TAMPA BAY TIMES

  $38,571

  PARTNER NEWSROOM SUPPORT

• CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC

  $31,250

  PARTNER NEWSROOM SUPPORT

• EL PASO MATTERS

  $30,000

  PARTNER NEWSROOM SUPPORT

• PUBLICSOURCE INC

  $30,000

  PARTNER NEWSROOM SUPPORT

• DEEP SOUTH TODAY

  $28,800

  PARTNER NEWSROOM SUPPORT

• CALMATTERS

  $17,857

  PARTNER NEWSROOM SUPPORT

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

14 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202323199349301717

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